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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. Enviva is the world’s largest producer of industrial wood pellets and is part of a rapidly growing industry in the U.S.

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WHO values are insufficient, say developers of European map of aerosol pollution

Envirotec Magazine

“These are used by epidemiologists to determine the aerosol sources that are most detrimental to human health.” While the composition of fine dust varies across the sites, the researchers say they have consistently identified the main source of aerosol pollution: residential heating with solid combustibles such as wood or coal.

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Urban wood burning is soaring, with 18,000 complaints but only 3 fines

Envirotec Magazine

New research from campaign group Mums for Lungs appears to reveal a failure to tackle wood smoke pollution in the UK. air pollution. [2]. Even so called ‘eco- stoves’ emit much more pollution than diesel HGVs – and you would not want those in your living room! Image credit: Demetri Dourambeis , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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Can California’s cap and trade address environmental justice?

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Richmond, a diverse, industrial city where housing prices and incomes have lagged behind its Bay Area neighbors, has poor air quality and some of the highest rates of respiratory and cardiovascular disease in California. "But And in several recent years, it emitted as much or more of certain air pollutants. As the U.S.

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Secrets of a long partnership in gas detection (Sponsored content)

Envirotec Magazine

This was important, because it helped to build trust.”. Available in two models (pump or diffusion) and battery powered with onboard datalogging, the YESAIR instruments have been designed for intermittent or continuous indoor air quality monitoring of temperature, RH, particulates and up to 5 gases.

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Autonomous Draper Drone to detect microplastics in the water

AGreenLiving

Microplastic pollution is everywhere, but its size — less than five millimeters in length — makes the threat almost invisible to the naked eye. Microplastics are created in one of two main ways: the breakdown of larger plastic debris, or from industries that make small plastic particles such as microfibers in clothing and microbeads.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

AGreenLiving

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South Danielle Purifoy Wed, 10/21/2020 – 00:45 This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South.